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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HYMAN UFFNER,

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, A

OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO F. L. SOHAFUSS COMPANY, OF

CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

ALBUM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 3, 1907.

Application filed May 31. 1907. Serial No. 376,469.

To all whom it may concern: v

Be it known that I, HYMAN UFFNER, a citizen of the United States,residing at 432 East Eighty-ninth street, New York city, New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Albums, of which thefollowing is a clear, full, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to improve the product and cheapen thecost of manufacture of albums such as are adapted for the insertion ofpostal cards, photographs and the like. Such albums, in order to causethem to present a good appearance when filled with cards or the like,have to be made with filling pieces between the leaves at the bound edgeof the book to hold them apart so that the book may accommodate theinserted matter. This may be done and is done by pasting filling piecesto the individual sheets and afterwards stitching therethrough, but suchmeans are expensive and do not always result in getting the edges toregister properly, often necessitating trimming of the edges aftersewing.

By my invention I do away with all asting and provide leaves which carrythe ling pieces which are bent out of the leaves themselves, accurate inposition and hence all leaves may be gathered and stitched to form abook which will require no trimming.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of a sheet ofpaper to form two leaves of an album scored and cut; Fig. 2 is a bottomedge view thereof; Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing one manner offolding a sheet; Fig. 4 is a perspective view showing my preferredmanner of folding; Fig. 5 is an end view showing part of a bound albumsupplied with leaves and their filling pieces according to my invention.

The blank which is to form the leaves 1 and 2 is preferably first givenpreliminary creases to insure accuracy in the meeting of the edges toavoid trimming, but this is not essential in all cases. At the same timeif desired the cuts 9 to retain the cards-may be desired. 1

In my preferred constructions shown in the drawings, a center crease 6and two creases 7 and 8 on each side of the center are formed, makingfive creases at the center preferably equi-distant from each other. At adistance from this set of creases I locate other creases 3, 4 and 5which as shown in Fig. 5 serve to make the leaf flexible so that thebook will open fiat. There are two ways in which I may fold these sheetson the lines of the creases, 6, 7 and 8. One way is shown in Fig. 3where the creases are used in forming folds of four thicknesses betweenthe leaves 1 and 2. This I prefer to use as the first front set ofleaves and filling pieces of the book, though it may be so usedthroughout. The second way is illustrated in Fig. 4 where the folds aremade upon each other on the outside of the two leaves which are paralleland face to face with each other and in contact. This I prefer as thefolding is more simple.

When sets of leaves such. as shown either in Figs. 3 and 4 or in both ofthem are folded, they are placed on each other with their edges inregister and punched and sewed with a cord 14 as is usual. Strips 10also sewed to the book by the cords 14 serve to unite the leaves to thecover 15. may be pasted to the back of the sets of leaves as shown inFig. 5.

What I claim is z- An improved album composed of sheets, folded intoleaves, integral filling pieces formed out of the sheet by foldingportions of it upon itself, the filling pieces adjacent to the frontcover lying between two leaves forming four thicknesses, and otherfilling pieces folded-out of the centers of sheets, which in the bookeach compose two leaves, said two leaves when thus folded lying incontact with each other face to face, the folded filling pieces being offour thicknesses and entirely on one side of the two leaves out of whichit is folded.

Signed at New York city this 20th day of May 1907.

HYMAN UFFNER.

Witnesses:

F. S. Bn'r'rs, F. WARREN WRIGHT.

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